companion plant

plural companion plants

1. A plant growing near other plants because it was planted there via companion planting.

present singular third person companion plants · participle present companion planting · participle past companion planted · past companion planted

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of companion-plant (verb).

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   If you're not keen to turn your garage into a lab, try coplanting in the garden. Studies have shown that wine cap mushrooms, for example, can boost corn's ability to produce delicious ears. These mushrooms are prolific decomposers, they digest organic matter in the soil, and this adds nutrients to the system that the hungry corn eagerly convert into sweet kernels. To start companion planting with fungi, add woodchips and mushroom spawn to your soil. This can be purchased online. Wine caps, and other tasty species like the phoenix oyster mushroom, can be grown this way.

   2023, Liv Sisson, Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide, Penguin Random House New Zealand, →ISBN